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Increasingly, law enforcement agencies across the country are no longer sitting on the sidelines. And they’re not waiting for church higher-ups’ cooperation — a change that has heartened victims’ advocates and prompted cries of "what took so long?"

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The diocese’s scathing 2,000-word statement -- the strongest and most detailed response by the church leaders since the raid -- depicts Catholic leaders’ increasing frustration with their dealings with police during their investigation into clergy sex abuses over the last nine months.

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But children’s advocates and the Survivors Network of those Abused by Priests -- known as SNAP -- said Thursday that the church’s reporting efforts appeared minimal, and that officials should’ve made more efforts to involve proper law enforcement agencies from the beginning.